From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

What man is, only his history tells.

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in his development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever he had to make an important decision.

The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation.

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.

Willingness to learn is important, willingness to act on what you learn is critical.

Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love grace and gratitude.

If I train the hardest, run the longest, go beyond what anyone else has the mental determination to do, I will be the winner.

Santa Monica was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But its not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.

I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be good.

I very much believe in the collective work and the team dynamic.

Thoth, Hermes, the stylus, the palette, the pen, the quill endure, though our books are a floor of smouldering ash under our feet.

Some people who were central to former success aren't the right people for your future success.

Concentration is not staring hard at something. It is not trying to concentrate.

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.